[Smalley]

We have an Indian Restaurant in TV now and that's a positive for us all. We had lunch there today and enjoyed it. The room has booths and some open tables. The menu is large and includes good vegetarian choices as well as lots of chicken, lamb and goat. You can specify how spicy you want your dish. The aloe gobi....cauliflower and potato in a sauce was tasty. The bread....naan and paratha....seemed right out of the oven...were fresh and excellent. The Dal....a lentil dish...was too watery for my taste. Usually it's much thicker, like a spread which will stick to the bread. Next time, I'll try some spicier options and some other dishes. The Inidan Restaurant in Ocala, Amarit Palace is the gold standard but you don't always want a long drive for a meal. Check the hours of Bombay Palace; I remember closed on Monday.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by Smalley

We have an Indian Restaurant in TV now and that's a positive for us all. We had lunch there today and enjoyed it. The room has booths and some open tables. The menu is large and includes good vegetarian choices as well as lots of chicken, lamb and goat. You can specify how spicy you want your dish. The aloe gobi....cauliflower and potato in a sauce was tasty. The bread....naan and paratha....seemed right out of the oven...were fresh and excellent. The Dal....a lentil dish...was too watery for my taste. Usually it's much thicker, like a spread which will stick to the bread. Next time, I'll try some spicier options and some other dishes. The Inidan Restaurant in Ocala, Amarit Palace is the gold standard but you don't always want a long drive for a meal. Check the hours of Bombay Palace; I remember closed on Monday.

I finally tried Amarit Palace a couple of weeks ago. I was not very happy about it. I asked for what I always get - chicken curry, medium-hot spice, with buttered naan and basmati rice. While I waited, I noticed no one brought me any papadum or tamarind sauce, so I asked about it. They brought me a little thing of mango chutney, and after I was halfway through with my entree they finally brought the papadum, which was brown (almost burned) and SALTED. Horrible.

The curry was so bland I had to actually ask them to spice it up. When they did, it was only marginally tastier. The naan was good, and the meal came with soup, and I selected the lentil soup which was actually delicious and the best part of the meal. The rice was plain - no peas, no cumin seeds, not a hint of saffron, which was disappointing.

I was so underwhelmed that I put most of it in a take-out container, thinking maybe I'd get through the rest of it for dinner. I ordered gulab jamun for dessert, and they were hard, too dense in the middle, and the sauce was just plain simple syrup, no rosewater, no pistachios, no nuttin.

Bombay Bistro was definitely better, and had better service (and obviously MUCH closer to home - I can park my golf cart at Walmart and walk across 441 at the light if I wanted to).

But of the three I've tried so far in the area, Shiva in Mt. Dora remains my favorite.